Bill Hollifield Bill is a Principal Consultant for PAS responsible for the alarm management work processes products, intellectual property, and software product direction. He is a voting member of the ISA SP-18 Alarm Management committee and co-author of The Alarm Management Handbook (and the ISA version of the same book, Alarm Management: Seven Effective Methods for Optimum Performance). Bill has many years of chemical industry experience with focus in project management, chemical production, and DCS control systems.
Bill holds a Bachelor s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University, and an MBA from the University of Houston. He is a pilot and builds furniture (and the occasional log home in the Ozarks) as a hobby.
Dana Oliver Dana is a Principal HMI Consultant at PAS. He has multi-company, international experience in all aspects of HMI. At PAS, Dana is responsible for the HMI work processes, intellectual property, and project implementations. He is a voting member of the ISA SP-101 HMI standards committee.
Besides HMI, Dana has 18 years of chemical industry experience with focus in automation, project management, production, and control systems configuration and implementation. Prior to PAS, Dana was the System Engineering Discipline Lead Engineer for Honeywell s Houston engineering center. Prior to Honeywell, Dana was a Production Engineer for Union Carbide Corporation.
Dana holds a Bachelor s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University.
Ian Nimmo Ian is President and a founder of User Centered Design Services, an ASM service provider. He served 10 years as a Senior Engineering Fellow and was a founder and Program Director for the ASM Consortium®, Honeywell Industrial Automation & Control. Before joining Honeywell, he worked for 25 years as an instrument/electrical engineer, and computer applications manager for Imperial Chemical Industries in the U.K.
Ian has specialized in computer control safety for over 20 years, and has extensive experience in batch control and continuous operations. He developed the control hazard operability methodology (ChazOp) during his time at ICI and has written over 150 papers and contributed to several books on the subject. Ian studied electrical and electronic engineering at Teesside (U.K.) University and is a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, a Senior Member of the ISA, and a member of NSPE.
Eddie Habibi Eddie is the Founder and CEO of Houston-based PAS, an industry leading, world-wide supplier of process automation, alarm management, asset management, and HMI-related products and services. Eddie has an engineering degree from the University of Houston and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas, and coauthored The Alarm Management Handbook. Eddie is a recognized industry thought leader in the areas of critical condition management, automation asset management, alarm management, and operator effectiveness. Under his leadership, PAS continues to grow profitably as an agile organization known for its strong culture of customer focus and significant innovation.
